Renee Olstead Quotes

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Renee Olstead

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• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Think
  • Irish
  • Genetics

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Better

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Life

• I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Up

• Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wishes

• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Law
  • Understanding

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  

  James Dyson
  • Lazy

• I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Good

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Free
  • Humorous

• I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Winning

• I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

  

  Steve Perry
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• I've taken that with me since working with him; in order to be William Hurt, you have use every moment like he does.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Taken
  • Hurt

• Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Die
  • Dying

• 'Five Easy Pieces' got to me pretty good. I remember seeing it and thinking, 'That is so cool. I would love to be able to do that.'

  

  Michael O'Keefe
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Would

• The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

  

  Lady Gaga

• I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

  

  Renee Olstead
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Challenges